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# Backend Software Engineer

- **Company:** Carat Usa, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $119,000.0 - $145,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Automation of Tests, Cyber Security, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, Persistent Data Structure, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, NoSQL, Redis, Enterprise Software Applications, Large Language Models, Backend, Containerization, Information Technology, Celery, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** May 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3883bb1e0ff09052

## About the Role

Do you have experience in System design?, * Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.

 * 2-4 years experience designing, maintaining, and testing enterprise grade RestAPIs.
 * Expert Python skills, deep experience with concurrent systems (asyncio, tornado, celery etc).
 * Demonstrated production experience complex long running processes that present and collect data
 * Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g., Prefect, Airflow, Dagster).
 * Experience with data persistence. Redis, Postgres, NoSQL, MongoDB, etc.
 * Demonstrated production experience with monitoring enterprise systems.
 * Ability to architect systems that are maintainable and extendable. Balancing over engineering while preparing for future requests.
 * Familiarity with LLMs - their APIs, performance challenges, and how to mitigate those (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc.)
 * Proficiency with version tracking
 * Knowledge of containerization, DevOps tools, and CI/CD pipelines.

## Description

As a backend software engineer, you will design, build, and deploy AI systems capabilities that drive business value and enhance our global products. You will work cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to design and deliver AI systems for content personalization, audience analytics, creative optimization, and more., * API System Design: Architect, develop, and test production grade Python APIs for media products.

 * Orchestration: Support data pipelines, background jobs, and distributed systems that interact with AI models.
 * Collaboration: Work with technical stakeholders to design scalable systems for easy development, deployment, and monitoring of systems. Create implementation plans teams can work against to achieve product goals.
 * Deployment & Scaling: Design and robust systems for long running processes. Databases, caching, retry logic, fall back behavior, etc. Ensure errors are routed for proper triaging
 * Robust Testing: Design/maintain high quality automated tests and manual stress/quality testing frameworks for AI systems.
 * Ethics & Compliance: Consider data governance and cyber security practices. Ensuring fairness, transparency, and compliance with regulations.


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